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These are the flowers we had in the garden in early spring 2024, taken mainly on the September equinox, 22 September 2024. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
It has been one of the mildest winters since I started keeping records:
mysql> select year(date),
min(outside_temp),
avg(outside_temp),
max(outside_temp)
from observations
where month(date) > 5
and month(date) < 9
group by year(date);
+------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+
| year(date) | min(outside_temp) | avg(outside_temp) | max(outside_temp) |
+------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+
| 2017 | -2.2 | 8.560618937140722 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | -3 | 8.791814473911545 | 19.7 |
| 2019 | -0.9 | 9.059936482458161 | 20.4 |
| 2020 | -0.8 | 8.716560253881685 | 20.7 |
| 2021 | -0.6 | 9.301671782613512 | 23 |
| 2022 | -2.6 | 9.085142510706916 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | -1.4 | 9.892861121292666 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | -2.8 | 9.608775174628834 | 24.4 |
+------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+
But somehow the garden looks less developed than in previous years. There's almost nothing worth highlighting. About the only thing of interest is this Abutilon outside my bedroom window, which has had its ups and downs:
The parent tree of our blue-flowering wildflower is flowering nicely:
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But the best we can say about the one that we transplanted is that it's not dead yet:
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It looked much worse a few months back, so there's still (a little) hope.
The rest aren't dead yet, but they're taking their time coming. Here they are:
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